Music-related: go see Weebl and Bob, cos the anims use some funky fresh tunes from the likes of Mr. Scruff and Dmitri from Paris. The music adds so much to the overall vibe of the cartoons, it’s unreal. You heard it here first. Possibly. It’s gonna be huge, no doubt, but will probably blow over as soon as five-year-olds start going around singing "I love donkey, donkey don’t lie," "when come back, bring pie!
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It’s always the way with IKEA. You go there to buy one thing and then buy other stuff on the spur of the moment. We spent exactly twice what we’d intended to spend before we arrived, plus we got the car washed while we were shopping. There goes another £49.75.
There is another blog, you know. I’m resurrecting vinyl obsession. I don’t know why. I still have the old url, but with Freenetname, who charge £90 to transfer domains out. Suck.
I haven’t bought many records lately, but Christmas was a fruitful time: Dubplates From The Lamp 2 (Pork Recordings — on CD) and both Mr Scruff albums on vinyl. Can’t be bad.
"A new way to exchange music online": xchangemusic.com. Mind you, I’m not sure if I want to exchange music, unless someone wants to take my Russ Conway album off my hands in exchange for something, ooh, any good.
While we’re on the subject of piracy: Tim O’Reilly: Piracy is Progressive Taxation (and other stories). Repeat after me: "Music sharing increases artist exposure, causing an increase in music sales".
Looky see — it’s the Microsoft Hall of "Innovation". The premise is that, basically, every product M$ have ever released has been bought, copied or stolen, never invented solely by themselves. And they have the audacity to call the average home user a pirate, by the erosion of fair-use rights of copyrighted material through technologies like Palladium. What kind of world is it we’re living in?